Master-planned community is sprouting in north Harris County

Construction on the 385-acre Exxon Mobil campus in Springwoods Village is well under way, and three housing developments are set to break ground in the master-planned community south of The Woodlands.

The developer of the 1,800-acre project said 2015 will mark a major milestone for the project at the intersection of Interstate 45 and the Hardy Toll Road in north Harris County.

Here’s what it’s expected to look like by then:

10,000 people will be working at the Exxon Mobil campus.

1,000 people will be working at Southwestern Energy, the second major corporation to build offices in there.

1,000 residents will be living in the community.

A hotel, multitenant office space, restaurants and shops will have been built in the first phase of what will eventually be a 60-acre town center.

Springwoods Village will be “a true live, work, play environment” with “strong connections that connect people with nature,” said Keith Simon, executive vice president of developer CDC Houston, a subsidiary of Coventry Development of New York, which owns the project. Simon took a group of reporters on a tour of the project this morning.